More Hip Than Hippie - Green Credit
Help others this holiday season simply by shopping! Find the green credit card that's right for you, and a portion of every purchase you make will go to a worthy cause. No you don't have to feel so bad about those mounting charges!

Beer and Chocolate:

Beer: Pinkus Organic Hefe-Weizen.

Chocolate: Milk Chocolate Cajou with Cashews and Raisins from Alter Eco.

Hip News and Finds
Finds:

• Meet Up! Do you live close to Chico, CA? Take a little road trip up to MHTH's hometown to see Jonathan Richman in concert on December 7.
• Send eco-friendly holiday greetings. Greene Street Greetings allows you to send holiday cheer near and far with post consumer waste recycled paper.
• Dead sexy! Check out the Men of Mortuaries Calendar. Proceeds go to the KAMM foundation to help people going through treatment for breast cancer.
• Pick a Present! Get your holiday shopping done and get a free gift for yourself! Spend $75 at Greenfeet and receive one free gift valued up to $20! You can't lose!
• Know your brew. Get the Quick Study Beer Guide and find out the truth behind some common beer myths.
• Snailwell Gazette. Subscribe to this quirky publication at SnailwellGazette.com.
• Plant for the Planet. Help fight global warming by joining Plant for the Planet, a campaign that hopes to plant a billion trees.
• More Hip Than Hippie Merch! Be the first on the block to have your very own More Hip Than Hippie Klean Kanteen, available at Greenfeet.

News:

• Keep your distance! Icebergs are heading north toward the Timaru coast in New Zealand. Fishermen beware!

More Hip Book Club
Our next book? In January, we'll be starting our second book, Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan.

Charge it! With Green Credit
Help the planet while you get your holiday shopping done! Put those purchases on the card - a green credit card. With each purchase, money will go to help the environment!

• Who's been naughty and who's been nice? Check out CoopAmerica.org and Treehugger.com to find out.
• Find out what the major lending institutions are funding at DirtyMoney.org.
• Your credit card could be funding political candidates that you don't agree with. Find out at OpenSecrets.org .
• The American Express Red Card is available for those of you in the UK. 1% of each purchase goes to the Global Fund to help fight AIDS in Africa.
• Get the Working Assets Visa Card and ten cents from every purchase will be donated to nonprofit groups like Doctors Without Borders.
• The Salmon Nation credit card from ShoreBank Pacific donates a percentage from each purchase to Ecotrust and Salmon Nation.
• The GreenCard Visa is for those of you in the Netherlands. It has a unique program that offsets all carbon emissions released into the atmosphere through the manufacture and use of products bought with the card.
• Try the Greenpeace Affinity Card if you live in the UK. Money from each purchase goes to support Greenpeace.

Listener Emails
Once again, we have a bunch of great listener emails. Keep 'em rolling in at hip@greenfeet.com. And don't forget to post articles, links, and speak your mind at our MHTH forum!

• A little chocolate each day keeps the doctor away? It's true folks! As the saying goes, "great minds think alike". Crystal and Patrick found an article about how a little chocolate can be good for your heart. The discovery was made after participants in a heart study at Johns Hopkins University cheated on their diets, indulging in some chocolate goodness.
• A gathering of hipsters. Doug had a location suggestion for a More Hip Than Hippie gathering in the Spring. He recommends Hershey Lodge. It's close to the chocoholic mecca, the Hershey Chocolate Factory. Sounds good to us!
• Safe lawns across the country. Cameron found out SafeLawns.org in 2007 will be launching "The Year of the Safe Lawn". The effort will encourage the public to utilize natural and organic lawn care techniques.

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